abscess
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin abscessus (“a going away; gathering of humors, abscess”), from abscēdō (“go away, depart”), from abs (“away from”) + cēdō (“go”). See cede.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
abscess (plural abscesses)
- (pathology) A cavity caused by tissue destruction, usually because of infection, filled with pus and surrounded by inflamed tissue. [First attested in the mid 16th century.][1]
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TranslationsEdit
cavity filled with pus
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VerbEdit
abscess (third-person singular simple present abscesses, present participle abscessing, simple past and past participle abscessed)
- (intransitive) To form a pus-filled, cavity typically from an infection.
TranslationsEdit
to form an abscess
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ReferencesEdit
- ^ “abscess” in Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2002, →ISBN, page 8.
SwedishEdit
NounEdit
abscess c
DeclensionEdit
| Declension of abscess | ||||
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| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | abscess | abscessen | abscesser | abscesserna |
| Genitive | abscess | abscessens | abscessers | abscessernas |